Opium Poppy Cultivation

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Crime In Afghanistan ... Opium poppy cultivation and drug trafficking have important role in the political and economic situation of Afghanistan for last twenty-five years ... In the aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, opium poppy cultivation increased in the nation ... Many mujahideen commanders taxed opium poppy cultivation, even directly participated in illicit drug trade for military financing ...

Shirley Poppy ... Shirley Poppy is the name given to an ornamental cultivar group derived from the European wild field poppy (Papaver rhoeas) ...

CIA Transnational Anti-crime And Anti-drug Activities - Drug Trade - Southwest Asia - The Afghan Economy and Opium ... Several factors encourage opium production, the greatest being economic the high rate of return on investment from opium poppy cultivation has driven an agricultural shift in Afghanistan from growing ... It must be emphasized that opium cultivation, on this scale, is not traditional ... has suffered considerably Afghanistan’s largest and fastest cash crop is opium." Afghanistan's rugged terrain encourages local autonomy, which, in some cases, means local leadership ...

Opium Production In Afghanistan - Production and Afghan Governance ... demonstrated an ability to strictly enforce a moratorium on opium production ... their enforcement with methods including beheading, opium poppy cultivation has been steadily increasing for over the past two decades ... sustainability, due to a many-fold increase in the burden of opium-related debt (locking many households into dependence on future opium poppy cultivation), forcing asset sales to ...

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“A man, said Oliver Cromwell, never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. Dreams and drunkenness, the use of opium and alcohol are the semblance and counterfeit of this oracular genius, and hence their dangerous attraction for men. For the like reason they ask the aid of wild passions, as in gaming and war, to ape in some manner these flames and generosities of the heart.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)